VENTURE CAPITAL POST

Outgunned by Chinese and Middle Eastern competitors and lacking the breadth of service of their U.S. rivals, European private equity firms are focusing on specific industries to compete on their home turf.

Private equity firm Cinven seeks the help of banks to refinance buyout of Host Europe Group.

Cinven to acquire Host Europe, an internet hosting and domain firm, in the amount of GBP 438 million.

Cinven will buy specialty chemicals firm CeramTec for EUR1.49 billion.

Cinven sealed roughly Eur1 billion in financing coming from Deutsche Bank, RBC and UBS for the firm's acquisition of CeramTec

Sources state that Cinven is in exclusive discussions with Germany-based CeramTec priced at Eur1.5 billion.

Europeean private equity company Cinven posted its close for its Fifth European Buyout Fund amounting to 5.3 billion euros.

Cinven and Finmeccanica draws offers for Avio Spazio from French German consortium EADS and French goups Safran and Thales along with two other unidentified US and Germany operators.

Cinven Ltd, KKR & Co LP and Warburg Pincus LLC are weighing deals to bid for PRA International, a clinical research group.

Private equity firm Waterland has attracted a number of potential buyers for Dutch trust and corporate management business Intertrust Group.

UPC will battle private equity funds Permira and Cinven for Poland's No.3 cable TV provider Multimedia.

Bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S., Canadian and Asian companies.

Private equity firm Cinven agreed two new deals to extend its reach into the fast-growing Turkish market and tap the resilient energy services sector.

Cinven's Camaieu seeks debt changes.